S.I. No. 412/1996 -- European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1996.

S.I. No. 412/1996 -- European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1996. 1996 412

S.I. No. 412/1996:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PESTICIDE RESIDUES) (FOODSTUFFS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1996.

I, Ivan Yates, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 96/33/EC of 21 May, 1996¹ , hereby make the following Regulations:

¹O.J. No. L144 of 18/6/1996

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1996 and shall come into operation on the 20th day of December 1996.

(2) The European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) Regulations, 1988 to 1996 and these Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) Regulations, 1988 to 1996 and shall be construed together as one.

2. In these Regulations --

"the Principal Regulations" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) Regulations, 1988 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1988 );

"the Regulations of 1993" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) Regulations, 1993 ( S.I. No. 317 of 1993 );

"the Regulations of 1995" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 165 of 1995 );

"the Regulations of 1996" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 35 of 1996 ).

3. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended:

(a) by the addition of the following text to the text of Annex II Part A (as amended by the Regulations of 1993, 1995 and 1996):

19	ENDOSULFAN Residue: sum of alpha and beta endosulfan and endosulfan sulphate expressed as endosulfan	(a) 0.1	poultrymeat others	0.004	(a)
20	FENTIN Residue: fentin expressed as triphenyltin cation	0.05 (*)		0.05 (*)	0.05 (*)
21	FENBUTATIN OXIDE	0.05 (*)		0.05 (*)	0.05 (*)
22	TRIAZAPHOS	(b) 0.01 (*)	poultrymeat others	0.01 (*)	(b)
23	DIAZINON	(a)	pig and poultrymeat	0.01 (*)	(a)
24	DISULFOTON Residue: sum of disulfoton, disulfoton sulphone expressed as disulfoton	0.02 (*)		0.02	0.02 (*)
25	DICOFOL Residue: sum of P, P1 and O, P1 isomers	0.5 0.1 0.05(*)	meat of cattle, sheep and goats meat of poultry others	0.02	0.05 (*)

(b) by the insertion in the footnote to Annex II Part A of the following text:

(a) Should levels not be adopted by 30 April 2000, the following maximum levels shall apply :

(a) 0.05(*)

(b) 0.01(*)

(c) by the addition of the following text to the text of Annex II, Section B (as amended by the Regulations of 1993, 1995 and 1996):

31	TRIFORINE	0.05 (*)		0.05 (*)	0.05 (*)
32	PROPOXUR	0.05 (*)		0.05(*)	0.05(*)
33	PROPYZAMIDE Residue: sum of propyzamide and all metabolites containing the 3.5-dichlorobenzoic acid fraction expressed as propyzamide	0.05 0.02 (*)	fat, liver and kidney others	0.01 (*)	0.02(*)
34	PHORATE Sum of phorate, its oxygen analogue and their sulphoxides and sulphones expressed as phorate	0.05 (*)		0.02(*)	0.05(*)
35	CHLORMEQUAT	(a)		(a)	(a)
36	DICOFOL Residue:1.1--bis-(parachlorophenol)--2.2-dichloroethanol (PP1-FW152), expressed as dicofol	1.0	liver of cattle, sheep and goats

and"

(d) the insertion in the footnote to Annex II, Part B of the following text:

(a) Should a maximum level not be adopted by 30 April 2000, a maximum level of 0.05(*) shall apply.

Given under my Official Seal, this 20th day of December 1996

Ivan Yates

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry

Explanatory Note

These Regulations amend existing Regulations by extending the list of pesticides for which residue maximum levels have been set.

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